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U.S. investigators raid Giuliani's New York apartment
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Wednesday executed a search warrant at the Manhattan apartment of Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to forme...
Apr 28, 2021 REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Local COVID roundup 4/28: Tazewell man in 30s among deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County between Tuesday and Wednesday added two deaths to its COVID-19 total, while Peoria County added one. The Tazewell deaths consisted of two men: one in his 30s, the other...
Apr 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
Indians rush for vaccines as coronavirus toll tops 200,000
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin next month as the country's toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by ...
Apr 28, 2021 Shruti Saha, who had been waiting since Tuesday night for her turn to get an oxygen cylinder refilled for her mother, reacts after she was informed about her mother's death, outside a refilling workshop, in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Peoria City Council to consider implementing land bank
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City Council Tuesday night received and filed a first reading of a proposed land bank in the city. A land bank is an entity created by a governmental body to help manage and...
Apr 27, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond
Bradley baseball contracts COVID
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Missouri Valley Conference has halted Bradley's scheduled series versus Indiana State because of positive COVID-19 tests within the Bradley camp. A statement released by the univer...
Apr 27, 2021 Bradley University
State COVID roundup 4/27: vax count well below avg
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The rolling seven-day daily average of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered throughout Illinois on Tuesday remained in the six digits, but a number of people far below that average...
Apr 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Local COVID roundup 4/27: Peoria woman in 30s among Tues. death toll
PEORIA, Ill. -- The COVID-19 case count for Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties was lower between Monday and Tuesday than usual, but the death count remained high. In Peoria County, a woman in her...
Apr 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
Fully vaccinated people can unmask outdoors in some cases: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - Fully vaccinated people can safely engage in outdoor activities like walking and hiking without wearing masks but should continue to use face-coverings in public spaces where they are requ...
Apr 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A group of people walk wearing protective masks head to a restaurant as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions are eased in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April 4, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File Photo
Tazewell County to offer E-Certify marriage licenses
PEKIN, Ill. -- Tazewell County residents will soon be able to access certified copies of their marriage licenses online, rather than having to come to the County Clerk's Office to obtain them. "You ne...
Apr 27, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Biden raises minimum wage for federal contractors to $15/hour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday will continue his push for a national $15 minimum wage with an executive order that raises pay to at least that level for hundreds of thousands of...
Apr 27, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure plan during an event to tout the plan at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
